Pepperdine and Loyola are giving me the same amount of money...i know apparently Loyola has a better reputation...but i just HATED the campus and can't imagine wanting to be there or enjoying myself at that school

Well...Pepperdine, if that's the case. I mean, it'll be hard to succeed at a law school if you absolutely despise their campus. I felt that way between Loyola and SD, and for that reason, SD won out in the end =D

But that's only if you're absolutely sure you want to practice in LA. In the end, Fordham will probably offer you lots more opportunities, etc...

I am sarcastically asking a rhetorical question because I think a law school making such a partisan political figure the dean (not to mention making him spearhead their "we-wanna-be-george-mason conservative philosophies) is a sure sign that pepperdine is a joke. the end.